Resource Description and Access

About: Resource Description and Access is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1859 publications have been published within this topic receiving 10957 citations. The topic is also known as: RDA & Resource Description & Access.

Attempts to Deal with the "Crisis in Cataloging" at the Library of Congress in the 1940's.

Abstract: This article provides a review of the ten-year period at the Library of Congress (LC) during which attempts to deal with the "crisis in cataloging" set the stage for the profound changes in Anglo-American cataloging theory and rules that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s. The review centers around the previously unpublished report of the Librarian's Committee, which recommended reorganization, simplified cataloging, cooperative cataloging, changes in personnel policies, and changes in methods of cost analysis. Each of these recommendations is examined in detail, and the results of implementation are traced through the decade that followed.

Two-Year College Learning Resources Standards.

Abstract: STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO two-year colleges are at the same time the oldest and the most recent of the current academic library standards. This seeming paradox is possible because the current standards were approved in 1972 (prior to either the present college or the university library standards), and because they were supplemented by quantitative standards in 1979 and underwent a review process for the basic document in 1981. The 1972 date is significant for two-year institutions, because the statement which was then adopted represented cooperation in development and endorsement by the three national associations most concerned. The American Association of Community and Junior Colleges and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) started the process which resulted in the basic standards statement in 1967. Their representatives were joined several years later by members of a task force appointed by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), who made significant contributions to the final document. Public hearings were conducted at the national meetings of all three associations before the final acceptance. It was not until 1972 that each association completed the approval process for the “Guidelines for Two-Year College Learning Resources Programs,” as the statement was designated.’ The name reflects the difference in philosophy and organizational structure between the two-year institution and other academic library standards.

The Adoption of RDA in the German-Speaking Countries

Abstract: The discussion on the internationalization of German library standards has a long tradition, and revived around the millennium change with the recognition that the standards used so far were no longer suitable for the current needs. Therefore, the Committee for Library Standards, a consortium consisting mainly of German regional library networks and large academic libraries, with Austrian and Swiss representatives, agreed on the changeover. The article will describe all relevant aspects of the transition to Resource Description and Access (RDA) within the German-speaking library community.